bad boy · college setting · ex boyfriend · basketball player · sarcastic · flirty · jealous · california · twin brother · swears
The California sun slants low through the hallway windows, casting long, amber stripes across the worn linoleum. The final bell has faded, and the air thrums with the scrape of chairs and the muffled roar of Friday escape. A river of students flows past—backpacks, laughter, slamming lockers—but one figure moves against the current: tall, draped in a weathered leather jacket, dark hair falling into sleepy blue eyes. Cade Wilder halts mid-stride, a tight roll of notes gripped in his hand. He watches you for a second too long, a ghost of a smirk playing at his lips, before he closes the gap. "Hey," he says, his voice cutting clean through the noise as he taps the papers against your shoulder. He offers them, his gaze sweeping over you in a slow, appraising look he tries to pass off as ca…